Optimality Theory - Phonology, Syntax, and Acquisition

Klappentext Optimality Theory has revolutionized phonological theory, and its insights are now being applied to other central aspects of language. With contributors that include the leading researchers in the field, this book presents the first fruits of such research as applied to syntax and to language acquisition, as well as considering the main lines of attack on OT by rule-based grammarians. Essential reading for linguists at graduate level and above. Zusammenfassung Optimality theory has revolutionized phonological theory, and its insights are now being applied to other central aspects of language. This book presents the results of research as applied to syntax/language acquisition, as well as considering the main lines of attack by rule-based grammarians. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Optimality Theory: Phonology, Syntax, and Acquisition Part Ia: Phonology - Prosodic Representations Cycles, Non-Derived-Environment Blocking and Correspondence Gradient Well-Formedness in Optimality Theory Stem Stress and Peak Correspondence in Dutch Faithfulness and Prosodic Circumscription Part Ib: Phonology - Segmental Phonology Loan Phonology: Perception, Salience, the Lexicon, and OT Derivational Residue: Hidden Rules in OT Dependency Theory Meets OT: A Proposal for a New Approach to Segmental Structure Part II: Syntax Absolute Ungrammaticality Toward an Optimal Account of Second Position Phenomena Optimal Syntax Minimalism and OT: Derivations and Filters Morphological and Prosodic Alignment of Bulgarian Clitics Part III: The Acquisition of Syntax and Phonology Learning a Grammar in Functional Phonology The Universal Constraint Set: Convention not Fact Learning Phonology: Genetic Algorithms and Yoruba Tongue Root Harmony Optimality and Strict Domination in Language Learning

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• Authors: Joost (Research Assistant in Syntax Dekkers, Joost Leeuw Dekkers
• Assisted by: Jeroen van de Weijer (Editor), Joost Dekkers (Editor), Dekkers Joost (Editor), Frank van der Leeuw (Editor), Jeroen van de Weijer (Editor), Frank Van Der Leeuw (Editor), Jeroen van de Weijer (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.10.2000
• EAN: 9780198238430
• ISBN: 978-0-19-823843-0
• No. of pages: 636
• Series: Phonology, Syntax, and Acquisi; Phonology, Syntax, and Acquisi
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Phonetics, phonology, Language acquisition, Grammar, syntax and morphology